k g howard

Thanks to my boys; thanks to my wife; thanks for health and strength; thanks for this life

[k g howard @kevogh]

@Alan_Measles Your exploration of English ethnicity while interesting enough is marred by your own usage of lazy stereotypes. Describing St Patrick's Day as an International celebration of alcoholism recycles one of the oldest English prejudices: Irish as drunks. Look in the mirror pal.

[k g howard @kevogh]

@endafieldsedu Impossible to keep a good man down! Fair play to you Enda, all the very best. See you soon, no doubt.

[k g howard @kevogh]

@BenRosher @hayward_katy Katy's your supervisor, then you're very lucky

[k g howard @kevogh]

@tuiatdkit
Fair play Ged for again highlighting how badly Dkit's been served by its leadership. ATU was a decade in the making. Dkit was part of that conversation until unilaterally withdrawn in Oct 2017. No alternative plan, with the negative impacts becoming clearer every day.

[Ged Nash TD @geraldnash]

The Atlantic Technological University with 22,000 students across 8 campuses goes live today.

Meanwhile, the long and inexcusable wait to secure Technological University status for Dundalk Institute of Technology continues…

⁦@DkIttui⁩

[k g howard @kevogh]

@changeleaderH @LeoVaradkar @SimonHarrisTD @DkIttui
DkIT in 2017 was on track to be part of a Tech Uni. New Prez arrived and unilaterally withdrew from the TU project. Dkit's now outside. It can't make an application, it can only get back in if an existing TU, which would be the dominant partner, decides to expand.

[k g howard @kevogh]

@argusnews @TUI @DkIT_ie @SimonHarrisTD Mid 2019 was the pivotal period. Local media at the time reported TUI's concerns the door was closing for DkIT, the union's warnings were ignored and now the door's shut. As Simon Harris admitted, how it's to be opened again isn't clear.

[DkIT Teachers Union of Ireland Branch @DkIttui]

While HEA involvement is welcome, it is a tragedy that the warnings staff raised for years regarding the foreseeable negative consequences of the DkIT President's office inexplicable refusal to negotiate with potential TU partner during this period of transformation were ignored.

[k g howard @kevogh]

@TraceyODonoghu9 @ClionaQ @QuinlivanTD @deirdrenugent4 @Pebbles316 Tripe, nah but, crubeens, now you're talking! Are they even sold anymore, could only imagine my boys' faces if I served up a plate of pigs toes, bristles and all

[k g howard @kevogh]

@ClionaQ @QuinlivanTD @deirdrenugent4 @Pebbles316 😀 you've a stronger constitution than me, nana used to cook for him on a Sunday morning, just the smell of it was too much for me.

[k g howard @kevogh]

@ClionaQ @QuinlivanTD @deirdrenugent4 @Pebbles316 Trust me, you missed nothing: brawn, packet and tripe, Grandad loved em all, couldn't take it myself

[k g howard @kevogh]

@SimonHarrisTD @DkIttui Bringing IoTs together to form TUs is difficult, but it's being done across much of the state. DkIT's "leaders", unilaterally, against all advice, decided to try something infinitely more difficult, and took us nowhere; there's a difference between ambition and fantasy.

[k g howard @kevogh]

@SimonHarrisTD @DeptofFHed @FineGael @merrionstreet @GMITOfficial @itsligo @LYIT @DkIttui @geraldnash @ROMurchu @DKITSU @Fergusodowd @John_McGahon @ErinMcGreehan @PFitzpatrickTD
Yet more great news for the educational prospects of, particularly first generation, students. What the IoTs started the TUs are continuing - except here, in the North East.

[k g howard @kevogh]

@DkIttui @SimonHarrisTD @John_McGahon @ROMurchu @geraldnash @PFitzpatrickTD @Fergusodowd @DkIT_ie DkIT's current most senior leadership took us out and kept us out of the TU project until union action forced a re-engagement, alas, very late in the day. We need new leadership to take us forward.

[k g howard @kevogh]

@TPpodcast_ You'll be so missed, Thu's TP podcast was a highlight of the week. The two History of Ideas series are excellent, as is David's book based on the first series. The decision to start with Hobbes was spot on. Thank you all for this incredible resource.

[k g howard @kevogh]

@PeterMcGuireIE
@TUIunion DkIT was in TU discussions for years. These were unilaterally ended in late 2017 and, despite staff ringing alarm bells, Dkit was taken in a different direction. Dkit is now exactly where the local TUI warned for years it would be - on the outside.

[DkIT Teachers Union of Ireland Branch @DkIttui]

Important to clarify practically all DkIT staff understood & wanted to fully engage with the TU Process & asked for years that talks commence with potential partners. The 'unrealistic ambitions' & neglect of the TU Process resided & resides solely in the DkIT President's office.

[DkIT Teachers Union of Ireland Branch @DkIttui]

Negotiations between IoTs to agree merger deals started a decade ago with the members of what is now TUDublin. Others began shortly after. #DkIT was in advanced talks to align with the current members of the new Atlantic TU in 2017, & could today be a part of the new entity.

[k g howard @kevogh]

@gavreilly Mid-late 2019 was the national TU project's inflection point. While the rest of the sector forged ahead, the TUI warned DkIT was being left behind, but our leadership dilly dallied around, chasing pipe dreams, dismissing our concerns, while taking us nowhere.

[k g howard @kevogh]

@DkIttui A Governing Body that wouldn't govern, a Leadership Team that wasn't. Staff called out how Dkit was being misled, few listened. Will anyone own their role in this failure? It's unlikely, that'd be leadership and that's what's been missing here.

[k g howard @kevogh]

@DkIttui Yep, unilaterally taken out of the TU project and kept out of it, to pursue a pipe dream. What's happened in Dkit's a case study in autocratic mismanagement: Governing Body didn't govern, Snr Managers wouldn't say stop. Only workers' action had any effect.

[k g howard @kevogh]

@ProfDevereux Yep, Teenage Wildlife, still playing that one

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@unadunphy @ClarNiUigin @CavMonETB @LouthMeathETB @TUIunion A Principal without principle, perhaps?